I mean, in Iraq, how many troops did we have searching for Saddam? A fraction of the 130,000. Most were dealing with the civilian population.
If we didn't have 130,000 troops in Iraq, we would have.... 130,000!!!! more troops available to use in Afghanistan. I think most people would consider 6 1/2 times the number of troops currently there to be 'vastly more troops available'.
Hey, don't be giving W a hard time. We all know that OBL is in the middle of Iraq, sitting on a pile of WMD and kiddie porn. He probably has a pirated copy of Windows too, running Kazaa to manage his MP3 'library'.
Or maybe you were trying to run Apache on Windows which is not a good idea.
Running Apache on Windows isn't necessarily evil either. It's good for Windows shops or when using another OS would make the learning curve incredibly steep.
I use Apache/Win for my CGI SOAP services. While they are internal servers, they still get a moderate load. And I've never had a minute of trouble with Apache.
I'm also using Apache/XP/Firebird on my laptop to learn PHP. Which will eventually be moved to my Apache/Debian/Firebird server.
"flip-flopping" (I hope I never hear that word again after tis election)
This one isn't bothering me, yet. But if you mention a "wake-up call" and that you have a goal to "exceed customers expectations", I'm going to join the NRA and build a cabin in the woods.
I played during the stress test and only teamed up once. (and didn't particularly enjoy it, the group leader was a jerk) Near the end I wanted to play a little above my level. If you play conservatively, I think the number of times you have to group will be limited.
Odd as it may sound, two thirds of Americans are currently in favor of nuclear power!
Damn, now I'm going to have to change my opinion on nuclear power. I can't be for anything mainstream. Looks like I'm going to have to give up Linux too. I wonder where I put my OS/2 disks.....
or get a different antenna.:-) The router/nic will listen to whatever is loudest. Go pick up a bigger antenna. 7dbi should do it.
Just make sure it's a DLink antenna. DLink will most likely be the only manufacturer who has a certified antenna for their gear. If you're going to start a pissing match, you really don't want to be the one breaking the law. Believe it or not, it's legal for Superpass to sell an antenna that isn't legal for you to install.
He could put a sector antenna on the AP (like the ATN24-1800). It might help, if there isn't too much interference.
He could also fire up netstumbler and verify that it's not other APs killing his signal. If it's APs, he could work with the other people and either run on separate channels or put together a cooperative wireless network.
ISM bands are nice because the gear is cheap. But it comes with a cost, cooperation.
Except that the option of variation, such as your car example, is only possible because of automation. Automation drives down manufacturing costs and gives the manufacturer the ability to differentiate products. Effective automation is rarely removed. Sometimes the result is a smaller workforce, sometimes people get re-tasked to add value.
How many here are old enough to remember when going to Mcdonalds and saying "hold the onions" was a special order and meant you had to wait a long time while they made it. By automating registers, fast food companies had the ability to change their processes. Now, 'special' orders are normal.
BTW, machines picking 'pink tennis balls' isn't the problem. The problem is that real tennis balls probably taste better. I grow my own tomatoes because 'hothouse tomatoes' shouldn't be a selling point. It's kind of like putting food coloring in water and calling it coke.
DNS isn't enough, since a lot of ISPs won't assign static IPs. But for a DDNS system, it sounds so simple you have to wonder why no one has done it.
I personally could care less about calling landlines from a VOIP phone. I don't use all my cell minutes. But a free directory of VOIP numbers would be nice. This is something that people should jump on now and get standardized before we get more VOIP directories than IM services.
AC2 died before birth. A horrid beta where the developers ignored the constant and loud complaints that all proved true in release.
I've been playing AC for nearly 4 years (unsubscribing this month) and participated in the beta for AC2. Basically, it looked like they took out everything that made AC good and slapped pretty graphics on what was left.
Aside from that, I have never understood the whole MMORPG sequel thing. From a business standpoint, it's absurd. Fragment your existing user base in hopes of attracting new customers, while at the same time doubling your fixed system costs. MMORPGs aren't games that people play for a few months and then move on to the next version.
For Turbine, there's a good chance that the risk they took creating AC2 could kill the entire franchise. Instead of updating AC, they risked their resources on a sequel that failed, now AC is so far behind the curve in technology that new MMORPGs (like World of Warcraft, City of Heros, Final Fantasy) are stealing the few remaining players they have. So by the time the expansion comes out next spring, they're going to have to fight to get us interested in their game again before they can tell us all the new stuff they want to sell.
I'm curious to see the effect EQ2 has on Everquest. It's not going to be the same as when they released Star Wars Galaxies. SWG won't interest a lot of the fantasy genre players.
have a Samsung HLN567W. It has a regular VHF tuner, but no ATSC/QAM tuner.
It still has a tuner. It still requires the components and the labor, and you can bet that even though they are cheap, it's still figured into the cost of the TV.
Maybe my circle of family & Friends isn't large enough, but I don't know anyone that doesn't have cable or satellite.
Tomorrow, all of the auto manufacturers are going to start putting 'free' infant car seats into all the vehicles they manufacture. After all, they are so cheap (compared to a $25k car), they might as well go ahead and include them.
Lots of plasma screens are just monitors without tuners also.
Maybe so, but before I posted that I checked Circuit City's website, and out of the half a dozen I checked, all had either a simple NTSC tuner or NTSC/ATSC/QAM tuner.
2006 is when the HDTV mandate kicks in - in the meantime, don't buy a non-HDTV!
With a modular (preferably) external tuner, it wouldn't make any difference. If I wanted HD, I'd upgrade to an HD feed from my cable provider anyway. But I could choose whether I wanted a direct feed from a cable satellite box, an everyday NTSC tuner, or a HD tuner. With a DVI port, you'd just tell the tuner/cable box what resolution your display could support.
Having recently been coaxed into digital cable (it's cheaper than the standard tier because I'm in a "competition area"), I was thinking how annoying it was to need a cable box for each TV/DVR. That, and the US HDTV requirements that are going to make all of our older TVs enormous paperweights. Maybe it's time for TV manufacturers to start selling TVs without any tuner at all. If you have cable or satellite you don't need it. If you want HD broadcast, you buy a tuner that suits your needs. If the cable boxes and tuners had a DVI port, you could hook up anything to it.
So would you fill out a credit card application that someone on the street shoved in your face?
I get credit card applications in my mailbox placed there by a carrier I don't know and rarely see from companies I have never contacted and have no business relationship with? And most people seem to place a lower value on their voter registration than their credit history.
Unless all those devices are physically wired to the Linux machine, I doubt real time processing would make much difference. Smart appliances are probably going to use some wireless technology. The buffers on the controller's wireless interface is going to catch (and queue) all the events and they'll be processed in a timely manner. You don't need to have a sensor tell you that your house temp dropped a degree, and immediatly turn on your furnace. Even a second or two wouldn't matter.
Now, if you were controlling a lathe in a manufacturing plant, it's probably going to be critical to know that it just shaved another.001 off of a part, and waiting another 1/10 of a second will be too long.
OK, I'm doing PhD research in (basically) Manufacturing Planning and that website has me confused.
They seem to be confused as well. The open source projects they list are Java and Apache related. The closest thing I saw to actually doing work are the reporting packages. I'm not sure why they feel the need to complicate things with two reporting systems. (Datavision, JasperReports)
As far as manufacturing, there is no mention of forecasting, materials management, bills of materials, or KANBAN. There is also no barcode and conformance labelling. And I think with a new system being built, there should also be some consideration for document control for ISO and communication capabilities for vendor managed inventory.
Last time I checked, in America I had the right to travel wherever or speak whatever I wanted, so long as it didn't injure someone or violate anyone else's right to do the same.
Travel wherever you want maybe. Travel however you want, not any longer. Simply by having your name inserted on a secret list by an anonymous agency, you lose the right to travel by commercial airplane, and probably soon by train and bus as well.
Local transportation will probably not be a problem, simply because of the logistics involved. But don't be surprised if new technologies are embraced that change that from never to sometime.
GPS phones, RFID drivers' licences, automobile black boxes, national databases....
The way I see it, this is a clear issue of states' rights.
Going off on an odd tangent, I was watching 'Gods and Generals' over the weekend. Well, kind of watching it I should say. But it struck me that one general, I think it was Lee, was asked to command the Union army. His response was that his loyalty was with his; family, Virginia, and the Union, in that order. And since Virginia was choosing to secede, he would have to decline.
These days people have more loyalty to a football team than they do to their state. Which probably explains the accelerating chipping away of states' rights. Despite the wishes of our founding fathers.
Do you actually execute any capitalism this way ? I can see using this method for occasional or weekly invoices for a consultant, but it sounds too slow and crufty to do over and over again all day long.
Depends on the 'small business (5 employees)'. What kind of business is it? Do they do a lot of purchases, or just the occasional office supplies. Do they need inventory management too? Vendor communications? What are their processes now?
I don't know if I would PDF the POs unless they have an aversion to paper. Nobody should be looking at them unless the vendor has a problem. Whoever handles purchasing would create the PO (put it in the database), print or transmit to the vendor, when the order is received it would be compared against the database (marked received), and accounts payable would match the packing slip and invoice to the PO database and cut a check.
You could do something simple in Access. I would probably use Firebird and Delphi and build it in an afternoon. (barring a requirement for electronic transmissions to 3rd parties)
E-Commerce is vague. It could be EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) But it looks more like it's just a web store. BFD. Covers B2C, but certainly doesn't my definition for B2B. No mention of EDIFACT or x.12? Maybe in 5 years if ebXML takes off.
Google will tell you what all the acronyms are. But, despite having all of this in their 'product description', I see no link between that and their features list that explains HOW they meet the criteria for them.
A PHB can see all the acronyms that an IT department might be looking for, but it will be a time consuming process finding out if the system actually supports any of it.
Of course, now I'm going to have to bookmark it as a reference and investigate the component projects they are using. Thank you, I'm supposed to be on vacation until tomorrow.....
Oh, and while OfBiz is MIT licensed. They are aggregating other open source projects that carry their own licenses.
But why would you have a problem with him running it, assuming it caused no problems?
Because it's another unknown in an environment with too many unknowns already. Just because you don't see it cause a problem, doesn't mean there isn't one. Given a choice, I wouldn't have media player, IE, or even a GUI on production servers. Anything that shouldn't be required for a server to perform it's task is added complexity. It's one more thing to check when something breaks. And in a production environment, eventually something breaks.
He should get a good lawyer and sue for a small, symbolic amount that will cover legal fees and a few months pay as he seeks other employment.
Then he really would be stupid. A future employer isn't going to care if the lawsuit was for a 'symbolic amount'. If they are going to care, they are going to say "you sued, we don't want to take a chance with you." If he is going to sue, it should be for reasonable damages. The job market is going to be tough enough for someone 3 years from retirement. With the comments made in this article, he might as well go ahead and apply for a job as a greeter at Walmart.
Who was the damaged party here? Is it theft when it is wasted otherwise? What's the difference between running Seti screensaver and any other one? Would you complain about a morphing image or dancing Bezier curve? Just because someone else (in this case Project SETI) profits, is it suddenly a theft?
And if tomorrow someone finds an unchecked buffer that allows a hacker to root the server, who is the damaged party then? Or suppose there is a bug in SETI@home that causes the server to fail under a load. People need to learn that installing unapproved software on their employer's equipment can have consequences. Putting unapproved software on servers should be hazardous to your career.
OTOH, discussing a subordinate's dismissal with the press, should be hazardous as well. I agree with others; Tom Hayes is acting like an ass and has earned the priviledge of getting sued.
Hmm... Looking around, I have a cordless phone, and an answering machine with built-in handset. If the power goes out, POTS won't be working for me, either.
But that is your choice. When I had POTS, I always kept at least one phone wired, usually my desk phone, because I used to call my bank to transfer funds. Wireless is insecure. Also, most people I know that still use POTS keep regular phones because a) they want one phone in a specific place all the time (kitchen, bedroom, desk) and b) cordless phone batteries die at the most inopportune times.
With VOIP you can UPS your local equipment, but if your broadband is cable (or wireless), most likely the CMTS, radio, or router that your ISP uses is going to go down. Simply because they are not regulated, they are not required to maintain a service standard, and they are not familiar with the environment that a common carrier operates in. I don't trust ISPs for essential services.
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I mean, in Iraq, how many troops did we have searching for Saddam? A fraction of the 130,000. Most were dealing with the civilian population.
If we didn't have 130,000 troops in Iraq, we would have.... 130,000!!!! more troops available to use in Afghanistan. I think most people would consider 6 1/2 times the number of troops currently there to be 'vastly more troops available'.
Hey, don't be giving W a hard time. We all know that OBL is in the middle of Iraq, sitting on a pile of WMD and kiddie porn. He probably has a pirated copy of Windows too, running Kazaa to manage his MP3 'library'.
Or maybe you were trying to run Apache on Windows which is not a good idea.
Running Apache on Windows isn't necessarily evil either. It's good for Windows shops or when using another OS would make the learning curve incredibly steep.
I use Apache/Win for my CGI SOAP services. While they are internal servers, they still get a moderate load. And I've never had a minute of trouble with Apache.
I'm also using Apache/XP/Firebird on my laptop to learn PHP. Which will eventually be moved to my Apache/Debian/Firebird server.
"flip-flopping" (I hope I never hear that word again after tis election)
This one isn't bothering me, yet. But if you mention a "wake-up call" and that you have a goal to "exceed customers expectations", I'm going to join the NRA and build a cabin in the woods.
I played during the stress test and only teamed up once. (and didn't particularly enjoy it, the group leader was a jerk) Near the end I wanted to play a little above my level. If you play conservatively, I think the number of times you have to group will be limited.
Odd as it may sound, two thirds of Americans are currently in favor of nuclear power!
Damn, now I'm going to have to change my opinion on nuclear power. I can't be for anything mainstream. Looks like I'm going to have to give up Linux too. I wonder where I put my OS/2 disks.....
or get a different antenna. :-)
The router/nic will listen to whatever is loudest. Go pick up a bigger antenna. 7dbi should do it.
Just make sure it's a DLink antenna. DLink will most likely be the only manufacturer who has a certified antenna for their gear. If you're going to start a pissing match, you really don't want to be the one breaking the law. Believe it or not, it's legal for Superpass to sell an antenna that isn't legal for you to install.
He could put a sector antenna on the AP (like the ATN24-1800). It might help, if there isn't too much interference.
He could also fire up netstumbler and verify that it's not other APs killing his signal. If it's APs, he could work with the other people and either run on separate channels or put together a cooperative wireless network.
ISM bands are nice because the gear is cheap. But it comes with a cost, cooperation.
Except that the option of variation, such as your car example, is only possible because of automation. Automation drives down manufacturing costs and gives the manufacturer the ability to differentiate products. Effective automation is rarely removed. Sometimes the result is a smaller workforce, sometimes people get re-tasked to add value.
How many here are old enough to remember when going to Mcdonalds and saying "hold the onions" was a special order and meant you had to wait a long time while they made it. By automating registers, fast food companies had the ability to change their processes. Now, 'special' orders are normal.
BTW, machines picking 'pink tennis balls' isn't the problem. The problem is that real tennis balls probably taste better. I grow my own tomatoes because 'hothouse tomatoes' shouldn't be a selling point. It's kind of like putting food coloring in water and calling it coke.
DNS isn't enough, since a lot of ISPs won't assign static IPs. But for a DDNS system, it sounds so simple you have to wonder why no one has done it.
I personally could care less about calling landlines from a VOIP phone. I don't use all my cell minutes. But a free directory of VOIP numbers would be nice. This is something that people should jump on now and get standardized before we get more VOIP directories than IM services.
AC2 died before birth. A horrid beta where the developers ignored the constant and loud complaints that all proved true in release.
I've been playing AC for nearly 4 years (unsubscribing this month) and participated in the beta for AC2. Basically, it looked like they took out everything that made AC good and slapped pretty graphics on what was left.
Aside from that, I have never understood the whole MMORPG sequel thing. From a business standpoint, it's absurd. Fragment your existing user base in hopes of attracting new customers, while at the same time doubling your fixed system costs. MMORPGs aren't games that people play for a few months and then move on to the next version.
For Turbine, there's a good chance that the risk they took creating AC2 could kill the entire franchise. Instead of updating AC, they risked their resources on a sequel that failed, now AC is so far behind the curve in technology that new MMORPGs (like World of Warcraft, City of Heros, Final Fantasy) are stealing the few remaining players they have. So by the time the expansion comes out next spring, they're going to have to fight to get us interested in their game again before they can tell us all the new stuff they want to sell.
I'm curious to see the effect EQ2 has on Everquest. It's not going to be the same as when they released Star Wars Galaxies. SWG won't interest a lot of the fantasy genre players.
have a Samsung HLN567W. It has a regular VHF tuner, but no ATSC/QAM tuner.
It still has a tuner. It still requires the components and the labor, and you can bet that even though they are cheap, it's still figured into the cost of the TV.
Maybe my circle of family & Friends isn't large enough, but I don't know anyone that doesn't have cable or satellite.
Tomorrow, all of the auto manufacturers are going to start putting 'free' infant car seats into all the vehicles they manufacture. After all, they are so cheap (compared to a $25k car), they might as well go ahead and include them.
Lots of plasma screens are just monitors without tuners also.
Maybe so, but before I posted that I checked Circuit City's website, and out of the half a dozen I checked, all had either a simple NTSC tuner or NTSC/ATSC/QAM tuner.
2006 is when the HDTV mandate kicks in - in the meantime, don't buy a non-HDTV!
With a modular (preferably) external tuner, it wouldn't make any difference. If I wanted HD, I'd upgrade to an HD feed from my cable provider anyway. But I could choose whether I wanted a direct feed from a cable satellite box, an everyday NTSC tuner, or a HD tuner. With a DVI port, you'd just tell the tuner/cable box what resolution your display could support.
Having recently been coaxed into digital cable (it's cheaper than the standard tier because I'm in a "competition area"), I was thinking how annoying it was to need a cable box for each TV/DVR. That, and the US HDTV requirements that are going to make all of our older TVs enormous paperweights. Maybe it's time for TV manufacturers to start selling TVs without any tuner at all. If you have cable or satellite you don't need it. If you want HD broadcast, you buy a tuner that suits your needs. If the cable boxes and tuners had a DVI port, you could hook up anything to it.
Is that anything like your local Quickie Mart is more likely to get robbed than the neighborhood bank?
Use a railgun to launch all the fuel and cargo. Keep all the launch costs on the ground. They aren't coming back, no heavy heat shielding required.
Then send the crew compartment (mini shuttle, about the size of SpaceShip One) on a Saturn rocket and assemble in space.
So would you fill out a credit card application that someone on the street shoved in your face?
I get credit card applications in my mailbox placed there by a carrier I don't know and rarely see from companies I have never contacted and have no business relationship with? And most people seem to place a lower value on their voter registration than their credit history.
Unless all those devices are physically wired to the Linux machine, I doubt real time processing would make much difference. Smart appliances are probably going to use some wireless technology. The buffers on the controller's wireless interface is going to catch (and queue) all the events and they'll be processed in a timely manner. You don't need to have a sensor tell you that your house temp dropped a degree, and immediatly turn on your furnace. Even a second or two wouldn't matter.
.001 off of a part, and waiting another 1/10 of a second will be too long.
Now, if you were controlling a lathe in a manufacturing plant, it's probably going to be critical to know that it just shaved another
OK, I'm doing PhD research in (basically) Manufacturing Planning and that website has me confused.
They seem to be confused as well. The open source projects they list are Java and Apache related. The closest thing I saw to actually doing work are the reporting packages. I'm not sure why they feel the need to complicate things with two reporting systems. (Datavision, JasperReports)
As far as manufacturing, there is no mention of forecasting, materials management, bills of materials, or KANBAN. There is also no barcode and conformance labelling. And I think with a new system being built, there should also be some consideration for document control for ISO and communication capabilities for vendor managed inventory.
Last time I checked, in America I had the right to travel wherever or speak whatever I wanted, so long as it didn't injure someone or violate anyone else's right to do the same.
Travel wherever you want maybe. Travel however you want, not any longer. Simply by having your name inserted on a secret list by an anonymous agency, you lose the right to travel by commercial airplane, and probably soon by train and bus as well.
Local transportation will probably not be a problem, simply because of the logistics involved. But don't be surprised if new technologies are embraced that change that from never to sometime.
GPS phones, RFID drivers' licences, automobile black boxes, national databases....
The way I see it, this is a clear issue of states' rights.
Going off on an odd tangent, I was watching 'Gods and Generals' over the weekend. Well, kind of watching it I should say. But it struck me that one general, I think it was Lee, was asked to command the Union army. His response was that his loyalty was with his; family, Virginia, and the Union, in that order. And since Virginia was choosing to secede, he would have to decline.
These days people have more loyalty to a football team than they do to their state. Which probably explains the accelerating chipping away of states' rights. Despite the wishes of our founding fathers.
Do you actually execute any capitalism this way ? I can see using this method for occasional or weekly invoices for a consultant, but it sounds too slow and crufty to do over and over again all day long.
Depends on the 'small business (5 employees)'. What kind of business is it? Do they do a lot of purchases, or just the occasional office supplies. Do they need inventory management too? Vendor communications? What are their processes now?
I don't know if I would PDF the POs unless they have an aversion to paper. Nobody should be looking at them unless the vendor has a problem. Whoever handles purchasing would create the PO (put it in the database), print or transmit to the vendor, when the order is received it would be compared against the database (marked received), and accounts payable would match the packing slip and invoice to the PO database and cut a check.
You could do something simple in Access. I would probably use Firebird and Delphi and build it in an afternoon. (barring a requirement for electronic transmissions to 3rd parties)
What does it DO?
We'd tell you, but then we'd have to kill you.
Obviously are you are not in the 'business', so you don't know the secret handshake.
ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning
CRM - Customer Relationship Management
MRP - Manufacturing Resource Planning
SCM - Supply Chain Management
E-Commerce is vague. It could be EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) But it looks more like it's just a web store. BFD. Covers B2C, but certainly doesn't my definition for B2B. No mention of EDIFACT or x.12? Maybe in 5 years if ebXML takes off.
CMMS/EAM - Computer Maintenance Management System/Enterprice Asset Mangement
Google will tell you what all the acronyms are. But, despite having all of this in their 'product description', I see no link between that and their features list that explains HOW they meet the criteria for them.
A PHB can see all the acronyms that an IT department might be looking for, but it will be a time consuming process finding out if the system actually supports any of it.
Of course, now I'm going to have to bookmark it as a reference and investigate the component projects they are using. Thank you, I'm supposed to be on vacation until tomorrow.....
Oh, and while OfBiz is MIT licensed. They are aggregating other open source projects that carry their own licenses.
But why would you have a problem with him running it, assuming it caused no problems?
Because it's another unknown in an environment with too many unknowns already. Just because you don't see it cause a problem, doesn't mean there isn't one. Given a choice, I wouldn't have media player, IE, or even a GUI on production servers. Anything that shouldn't be required for a server to perform it's task is added complexity. It's one more thing to check when something breaks. And in a production environment, eventually something breaks.
He should get a good lawyer and sue for a small, symbolic amount that will cover legal fees and a few months pay as he seeks other employment.
Then he really would be stupid. A future employer isn't going to care if the lawsuit was for a 'symbolic amount'. If they are going to care, they are going to say "you sued, we don't want to take a chance with you." If he is going to sue, it should be for reasonable damages. The job market is going to be tough enough for someone 3 years from retirement. With the comments made in this article, he might as well go ahead and apply for a job as a greeter at Walmart.
Who was the damaged party here? Is it theft when it is wasted otherwise? What's the difference between running Seti screensaver and any other one? Would you complain about a morphing image or dancing Bezier curve? Just because someone else (in this case Project SETI) profits, is it suddenly a theft?
And if tomorrow someone finds an unchecked buffer that allows a hacker to root the server, who is the damaged party then? Or suppose there is a bug in SETI@home that causes the server to fail under a load. People need to learn that installing unapproved software on their employer's equipment can have consequences. Putting unapproved software on servers should be hazardous to your career.
OTOH, discussing a subordinate's dismissal with the press, should be hazardous as well. I agree with others; Tom Hayes is acting like an ass and has earned the priviledge of getting sued.
Hmm... Looking around, I have a cordless phone, and an answering machine with built-in handset. If the power goes out, POTS won't be working for me, either.
But that is your choice. When I had POTS, I always kept at least one phone wired, usually my desk phone, because I used to call my bank to transfer funds. Wireless is insecure. Also, most people I know that still use POTS keep regular phones because a) they want one phone in a specific place all the time (kitchen, bedroom, desk) and b) cordless phone batteries die at the most inopportune times.
With VOIP you can UPS your local equipment, but if your broadband is cable (or wireless), most likely the CMTS, radio, or router that your ISP uses is going to go down. Simply because they are not regulated, they are not required to maintain a service standard, and they are not familiar with the environment that a common carrier operates in. I don't trust ISPs for essential services.